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Charles Sumner served in the U. S. Senate from Massachusetts during the Kansas territorial era. He was an outspoken abolitionist and helped the Free-Soil party in 1848. He was opposed to the Fugitive Slave Law and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. After making his well-known speech "The Crime Against Kansas" on May 20, 1856, he was brutally assaulted (caned) by Preston Brooks, a Representative from South Carolina. Sumner was unable to return to his Senate duties until December, 1859.
Item Number: 90670
Call Number: B Sumner Charles *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90670
Collections - Photograph
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Congress - Senate
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Carte-de-visite
People - Notable People - Sumner, Charles
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Carte-de-visite
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